I recently got a wood lathe... I love working with it and have gotten rather good with it. Now I would like to see what everyones thoughts are on turning a frying pan style mandolin. Lets see what everyone has to say about the idea.

Intrigued by your idea. Tell me more about your design.I've seen stuff about turning two banjo or uke necks simultaneously on a lathe, but nothing about mandolin type bodies on a lathe.I turn banjo rims on a lathe. Are you talking about making the mandolin sides like a banjo rim?